LONDON -- Despite the fact that Europe is a global leader in plastics recycling and in diverting plastics from landfills by using waste-to-energy programs that convert waste into power generation, Europe, along with many other industrialized regions, recently got another major incentive to increase its recycling effectiveness for plastics -- the message that China no longer wants to be the world’s dumping ground for plastic waste, according to research from IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight.